How are similar keyword phrases related?

[Yuba30]

I'm new to SEO and have been reading a lot to try to get up to speed. There is one concept that I'm not clear about and am not sure what to search on to find an answer.

Let's say I'm trying to target 2 keyword phrases "Wordpress SEO" and "Wordpress SEO plugin". In the content of my web page should I always write "Wordpress SEO plugin" because it'll count towards both phrases I'm trying to target? Or would Google be smart enough to only give me credit for "Wordpress SEO plugin" in that case and I should also put just "Wordpress SEO" in other places in my content?

Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks in advance!

[BlueprintMarketing]

1st off welcome to the great source of knowledge called SEOmoz & the world of SEO.

if you only write the words WordPress SEO Google will understand that WordPress uses plug-ins because of so many other people on the web talking about plug-ins and the word WordPress put the real answer to your question is no you should not leave out key words and assume that Google will go about fixing it for you.

If you want to rank for WordPress SEO plug-in you could do it by just including WordPress somewhere in your text Seo somewhere in your text and plug-in somewhere in your text separately then put them all together in a sentence that make sense and is something you would like to read yourself like "this is a fantastic new WordPress Seo plug-in that has helped me a lot."

However to not go overboard and keep using the same words I will strongly recommend you try a WordPress plug-in called scribeseo it is going to tell you when you have passed your limit of using the same keyword too many times to post it will also tell you many helpful rules to blog by simply things like remember it must be 300 words or more 20 times a month minimum. Engage people please Google plug-in give it a try I think it will be a big help the best thing you could have done by far was join this community and I hope I have been of help to you

sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell